I don’t give a sh*t about the state of the union address.

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Great commentary. Ty

There’s only one solution to fix the state of the union and I can’t say it on here…

Vote blue in November. That is what trump and his administration is worried about. Every time he speaks he lies

In the precorruption 60s the incentive for the government official for reelection voter satisfaction. Now its man with the most dirty campaign money wins. Voters needs are totally out of the equation.

I know when I first got here (to this page) folks were sick of hearing about ground news. I personally never cared, get that money sis. But moreover I always thought ground news was the perfect ad partner not only Leeja but for the times we’re in. PLEASE do not stop advertising ground news, they are a few others are such a useful tool to the public during these time. If Leeja ever stop promoting ground news I’ll feel like something’s not right lol.

Im a big fan. Keep giving Trump hell. SALUTE 💯💢💥

Our democracy is dead

I know you probably won't see this, but your message about taking your life back has impacted me. I've been spending more time thinking about art and taking care of myself and my community, and less doomspiralling about current policy moves.

I have not yet had the resolve to delete social media for a variety of reasons, nor have I done as much as I'd like when it comes to community building, but ever video of yours that I watch brings me closer to that. Thank you.

Great rant, Leeja!

Hegy ❤😂😢😮😅😊

Anybody know what happened to OffJaWaggon?

"Detached from reality" is insufficiently strong language in the Age of Trump. Psychotic more accurately describes the condition.

Political satire has become so superfluous that novelist Christopher Buckley gave it up. The Onion has basically become tomorrow's hard news delivered today (and the writers at Mad magazine would have had a hard time keeping up).

That there's probably further to go down the rabbit hole into the world of Humpty Dumpty and the Queen of Hearts is a terrifying and horrific prospect.

The average duration of a civilization has been about 340 years, and (counting from 1776) the USA is at 250. The average duration of a species (at least among mammals) has been 1 to 2 millions of years, but the greatest threat of humanity's extinction is our own behavior (as our solutions to perceived problems entrench and accumulate more profoundly dangerous problems).

There's the phenomenon of logarithmic growth (even without acceleration of the rate of acceleration) reaching sudden inflection points.

If we have a doubling time of a decade, and after a century we've run out of only half of some resource, then the next decade will exhaust the remainder. People who don't grasp the concept, who imagined that we had left another century's worth, may be unpleasantly surprised by what they see as the "sudden catastrophe."

The power of money in politics is a power that the citizens themselves have granted, and so can withhold.

It's the power (recognized by Mussolini more than a century ago) of Madison Avenue to tell people what to think and what to buy.

That amounts to "pork-barrel politics" without the outlay of burgoo and whisky; just vapid words and images more insubstantial than the airwaves carrying them.

As Winston Churchill is apocryphally credited with saying, "Madam [or Sir], we have established what kind of woman [or man] you are; we are merely haggling over the price."

And a lot of U.S. Americans today are cheaply bought.

(That's per capita, in terms of what real value they get; the voters are so numerous, and the price of price of propaganda so rising in an 'arms race' of weapons of mass distraction as spending more than the opposition correlates with winning election, that we're not very far from it being more cost-effective to cut out the middleman and buy the Electoral College directly.)

Not that the more personal assets (including much besides money) with which lobbyists bribe politicians are not also significant; but advertising to get votes is the #1 vector of corruption.

If that pay to play were not effective, but actually counterproductive, then politicians who fail to win office in the first place would be unable to repay with dividends the capitalists' investment (never mind at the accustomed rate of return that's orders of magnitude greater than any productive industry).

OMG. Be careful. I let this shit Republicans are doing to harm my heart. I agree with everything you said. Don't let theses assholes harm you like they have me. My heart is permanently damaged and my life expectancy is not long.

I watched the whole thing, and it sounded to me like that spring break when I smoked a whole lotta weed.
No, wait. The it was far more incoherent than that spring break I smoked a whole lot of weed.
I guess I'm saving money on weed now. I got Trump instead.

Democracy in tribal societies leads to ethnic cleansing whenever the dominant tribe elects a government with the mandate to eliminate a lesser tribe. This happens in places like sub saharan Africa and the USA, where the whites elected a white supremacist to ethnically cleanse the browns and yellows. Nothing matters more than the ongoing ethnic cleansing operation to the whites who will vote for ethnic cleansing no matter the cost to their own tribe. So the economy is failing and diplomatic influence is evaporating and debt is out of control but the tribe is celebrating their ascendence over the others and will continue to support the tribal regime. The rest is smoke and mirrors.

The Trump version WAS the real actual version….the rest of the nonsense you lunatics came up with is from the Magic Kingdom at Disneyworld !!!!!!Cuckoo….Cuckoo !!!!

I can only see the top of Leeja's tee shirt — what's it say?

My favorite take on this was Jamelle Bouie's take that 1) Democrats should just not show up and 2) if Democrats get the majority, they should just not invite the president anymore and demand he sends an email/letter like we used to do pre-Wilson. And if the fallout of that is that Republicans don't invite Democrat presidents… good. Presidents should show deference to congress, not the other way around.

ur lowkey white girl of the decade tbh

"The State of the Union: The Billionaires Won, So Live While You Can"

I wish I could stop paying taxes; which pays for this ungodly BS.

I died at the "close! But far more enjoyable" part about the movie. 😂

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean —

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down —

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

“The Summer Day”

Mary Oliver

Go Ice! Go Trump!